BBC’s Emily Maitlis: I’ve had a stalker for more than 25 years

Emily Maitlis was at one time placed under 24-hour protection after her stalker’s escape from asecure hospitalDAN KENNEDY/The Times

Emily Maitlis has spoken for the first time about a stalking ordeal that has lasted for decades and left her children requiring a security escort just to take the school bus.

The Newsnight presenter and journalist, who has become one of the most recognisable faces on the BBC, revealed the fear that she and her family have suffered because of a man she met at university in the late Eighties.

Maitlis’s stalker met her when they were undergraduates at Queens’ College, Cambridge, was sent to a secure hospital in 2008 after breaking a restraining order banning him from contacting her. It has not deterred him from continuing his stalking campaign, the presenter said.

“I had a police presence outside my house two months ago,” she…

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